Oatka Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 411 Scottsville-Mumford Rd., Wheatland, 14546
When was it listed? February 2014
Category. site
Town. Wheatland town
National Register reference number. 14000025 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

110 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Oatka Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 24 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	24
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	15
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Oatka Cemetery: 13 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Abandoned Gypsum Workings	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Consolidated Wheatland Plaster Shft	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Empire Gypsum Co. Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Garbutt Gypsum Co Shaft #1	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Lycoming Calcining Co Mine #1	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
M. Rogers Farm Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Mcvane Farm Adit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Miller Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Monarch Plaster Co. Shaft	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1899 USGS Bergen quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS Brockport quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1934 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Simeon Sage House	0.5 miles	2010
Union Presbyterian Church	0.9 miles	2004
Windom Hall	0.9 miles	1994
Grace Church	1.0 miles	2010
David McVean House	1.0 miles	2006
Cox-Budlong House	1.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000025 in Record Group 79.
Monroe County	All 233 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.